Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing things and then imagining some more and magnifying it and multiplying it.
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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
What is the source of all this trouble? I'm saying that the source is basically in thought. Many people would think that such a statement is crazy, because thought is the one thing we have with which to solve our problems. That's part of our tradition.
One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little. They act impulsively without thinking.
When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears - when you give your whole attention to it.
I feel like I'm losing my ability to understand reality; like when someone loses their hearing, they can still speak English, but their speech eventually becomes distorted because they can't hear themselves.
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they said or did.
Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.
I hadn't really noticed that I had a hearing problem. I just thought most people had given up on speaking clearly.
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